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The Baroque style in Sicily was largely confined to buildings erected by the church, and palazzi, the private residences for the Sicilian aristocracy. [a] The earliest examples of this style in Sicily lacked individuality and were typically heavy-handed pastiches of buildings seen by Sicilian visitors to Rome, Florence, and Naples. However ...
The Baroque Duomo of San Giorgio in Ragusa, Italy, on the island of Sicily. Sicilian Baroque is a unique style of Baroque architecture that developed in Sicily, during the 17th and 18th centuries. It is known for its curves, decorative flourishes, grinning masks, and putti creating a flamboyant look that defines Sicily's architectural identity.
The mosaics are made of glass tesserae and were executed in Byzantine style between the late 12th and the mid-13th centuries by local masters. [2] With the exception of a high dado, made of marble slabs with bands of mosaic between them, the whole interior surface of the walls, including soffits and jambs of all the arches, is covered with minute mosaic-pictures in bright colors on a gold ground.
Sicilian Baroque — a style of Baroque architecture in Sicily which evolved in the Kingdom of Sicily from the 1693 until the mid−18th century. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
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The high altar of Palermo Cathedral in an 18th-century print. Sicily is particularly prone to earthquakes, and these destroyed many works of art.Particularly vulnerable is the city and area of Messina (earthquakes of 1562, 1649, 1783, 1894 and 1908), but also other areas of the island such as the Val di Noto (earthquakes of 1542, 1693, 1757, 1848).
The Baroque style in Sicily was largely confined to buildings erected by the church, and palazzi built as private residences for the Sicilian aristocracy. [165] The earliest examples of this style in Sicily lacked individuality and were typically heavy-handed pastiches of buildings seen by Sicilian visitors to Rome, Florence, and Naples ...